Andrew LeCompte
Author of the
ground-breaking new book, Creating Harmonious Relationships, Andrew LeCompte is recognized
as a leading authority in the practice of improving relationships through more effective
communication. He teaches people how to resolve conflicts, first by noticing
their initial perception and emotion, and then quickly adopting a more accurate
perception and approach to the communication. The resulting mutual understanding
is completely satisfying for both parties.
As a consultant Mr. LeCompte guides companies to improved productivity through organizational development, change management, and leadership coaching. He helps executives build trust, enlist champions, and drive positive change through the entire organization.
As President of the Let’s Talk® training group, Andrew LeCompte runs customized, in-house team-building sessions and intensive managerial and supervisory development programs. His particular area of expertise is in relational communication and he offers training and coaching in how to serve customers and build long-term relationships. He has consulted to a wide range of industries including high technology, financial services, manufacturing, distribution, education, and health services.
Prior to establishing his consulting practice Mr. LeCompte was Manager of Training and Development at several national corporations, including ITS Health Services and Signal Capital Corporation. He has served on the Executive Board of the American Society for Training and Development. He has taught in several colleges in New Hampshire.
At the University of Southern Maine, Mr. LeCompte headed the verbal communication program of the Casco Bay Partnership for Workplace Education, designing the curriculum and training trainers to bring effective verbal communication skills training to seven companies. He is a professional mediator and a trainer of mediators.
Andrew LeCompte is an articulate speaker with many personal stories from his twenty years of consulting experience to illustrate his points. The International Network for Attitudinal Healing regularly invites him to present at their annual conferences.
He holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychology and Organizational Development awarded by Beacon College in 1982. He has been the recipient of several academic honors including a Ford Foundation Fellowship. LeCompte is also a graduate of the International Teacher Training Institute at the Center for Nonviolent Communication in Switzerland, the Human Resources Executive Program at Babson College, and an Outward Bound Teacher Training program.
Participant Evaluations Client List
Testimonial:
Andrew LeCompte is as gifted a teacher as the clarity with which he presents the material in his book would suggest. In the first minutes of a class or workshop he builds an atmosphere of trust and cooperation. With easy patience and spontaneity he helps the learner identify the loving intention of his/her communication and find words that invite a positive response, no matter how sensitive or difficult the issue. When I first took Andy's class I became tearful because the communication issue I had chosen to work on was such a painful one for me, but he was able gently to help me keep my focus and arrive at an approach for handling it which proved to be successful in the actual situation.
I have seen Andy teach in small classes and in larger workshops at regional Conventions. He is unfailingly poised, witty, compassionate and inspiring. As Director of Program Research for a time at Open U, a major urban independent learning center in Minneapolis, I had the opportunity to meet and observe a good number of teachers on the national circuit. I can say without hesitation that the quality of Andy LeCompte's skills as a teacher and the value and usefulness of his material is unsurpassed.
Carol Hochstedler, Ph.D.
Publications by Andrew LeCompte:
"How
Do I Forgive That?" On Course, Vol. IX, No. 6, Issue 241, June, 1997.
"How to Manage Your Boss," New Hampshire Business Review, April, 1989
"Your Brain is Out of Control," On Course, Vol. IX, No. 11, Issue 246,
November, 1997.
Creating Harmonious
Relationships, Atlantic Books, 2000.
Andrew
LeCompte's e-mail address: lecompte@lets-talk.org